Race Horses Quotes

• When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Air, Musical

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Henry V”, p.197, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

  Lord Kelvin

  Horse, Race, Ironic

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• There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Horse, Secret, Riding

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 31

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• A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Horse

  "Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Roosevelt Years, 1933-1935".

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• Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Race, Navy

  Sir Winston Churchill (1963). “The world crisis”

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• I was like a race horse, just trying to get into the world.

  Joely Fisher

  Horse, Race, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a freakin' artist, man, not a (expletive) race horse.

  John Lennon

  Horse, Artist, Men

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• At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You can't make a race horse of a pig." Samuel replies, "No, but you can make a very fast pig.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Boys, Race

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• Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

  George Herbert

  Horse, Race, Long

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.352

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• Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate.

  Dennis Quaid

  Running, Horse, Animal

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• In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

  Carroll Shelby

  Sports, Horse, Race

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• If you could call the thing a horse. If it hadn't shown a flash of speed in the straight, it would have got mixed up with the next race.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Horse, Race, Next

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “The Most Of P.G. Wodehouse”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• If I were young, fast, healthy, and had a lot of money and my whole sex life ahead of me, I'd retire - like Secretariat.

  Dick Butkus

  Horse, Sex, Healthy

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• I rode Sea Pigeon in all his work - that's why my arms are so long.

  Mark Birch

  Horse, Sea, Long

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• After winning Ascot's Queen Alexandra Stakes on Brown Jack- If you'd been on your honeymoon, you couldn't have had a happier time.

  Steve Donoghue

  Horse, Queens, Winning

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• A real racehorse should have a head like a lady and the behind like a cook.

  Jack Leach

  Horse, Real, Should Have

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• The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

  Dean Martin

  Beautiful, Horse, Race

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• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  Jack Klugman

  Broken Heart, Horse, Careers

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• A loose horse is any horse sensible enough to get rid of its rider at an early stage and carry on unencumbered.

  Clive James

  Horse, Enough, Stage

  Clive James (1983). “Glued to the box: television criticism from the Observer, 1979-82”, Jonathan Cape

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• Lochsong - she's like Linford Christie ... without the lunchbox.

  Frankie Dettori

  Horse, Christie

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• Yes, you will. And I will warn you now that not their blood but your suspicion might build evil in them. They will be what you expect of them…I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb." "You can’t make a race horse of a pig." "No," said Samuel, "but you can make a very fast pig.

  John Steinbeck

  Horse, Children, Men

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• Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Horse, Race, Talking

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.194

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• Most of us feel on some level like race horses chomping at the bit, pressing at the gate, hoping and praying for someone to open the door and let us run out. We feel so much pent up energy, so much locked up talent. We know in our hearts that we were born to do great things, and we have a deep-seated dread of wasting our lives. But the only person who can free us is ourselves. Most of us know that. We realize that the locked door is our own fear.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Horse, Heart

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• Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

  Arthur Koestler

  Faith, Horse, Believe

  Andre Gide, Richard Wright, Ignasio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Louis Fischer (1965). “the god that failed”

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• It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Horse, Athlete

  Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”

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